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Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
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[โ€“] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Although RAM is vastly more durable than the flash chips of an SSD, so that wouldn't make sense.

It might make more sense from a cost viewpoint, since flash is typically cheaper than RAM.

[โ€“] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I know. I wrote it as a crap excuse. The SSD that stores user data is infinitly more important than RAM.